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Obsession has always been a buzzword in the art world, a less corny, more secular-sounding synonym for "inspiration."
Sweet and funny without being corny, the film "belongs to a small genre of crowd-pleasers [such as] The Full Monty and Brassed Off " (Jami Bernard, Daily News ). (Visit the official site; Slate 's David Edelstein is not charmed: "I see a future for elderly male actors willing to shed their clothes for laughs, but I don't see myself in the audience."
Rather, it is the artistry that rubs off on the person steeped in the best parts of the culture, the phrase unconsciously plucked from a 17th-century poem or 16th-century play, (no matter how corny, like Methinks the lady doth protest too much), the single word that indicates at least passing familiarity with history (like defenestration ), the fragment of an air associated with a Bach fugue.
Her Anna is such a cauldron of unresolved impulses--rage, petulance, fear, deceptiveness, promiscuity--that it's no wonder that the filmmakers had to tack on a corny, too-pat coda that spells out the couple's happily-ever-afterhood.
This huckster’s paradise of boutiques, souvenir shops, bars, and restaurants is frankly commercial in its polished quaintness, but with a certain corny charm.